The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1902, Page 10

DAY CALL. e T ORI THE ? ® 3 tin' cold an' Indifferent to him that & way. “Rut as I su'gests at the start, thar comes a day when I loses both Tom an Jerry. It's about second drink time one August mornin’ an” me an’ them elght mules goes pirootin’ through a little Mexi- can plaza called Tramperas on our way to the Canadian. Over by a doby stands a old flea-bitten gray mare; she's shore rideous. 3 “Which if mules has one settled an' overmasterin’ deloosion, It's a gray mare, she's the goddess of the mules. This yere knowledge is common; if ‘you-all is ever aut to create a upheaval in the destinies of a mule, the handiest, quickest lever is a old gray mare. The gov'ment takes ad- vantage of this yere aberration of the mules. Thar's trains of pack mules freightin' to the gov'ment posts in the Rockles. ‘Lhey figgers on three hundred pounds to the mule, an’ the freight is THE WOMAN WHO GAVE THE GREAT ACTRESS HER FIRST LESSONS IN ENGLISH HAS AN INTER- ESTING STORY TO TELL. packed in panniers. Them gov'ment freighters not bein’ equal to the manifold % mysteries of a dlamond hitch, don’t use ODJESKA will be able to renew - there.’ I said. So we got out of the Cali- no reg'lar shore-enough pack-saddle, but memories and friend- fornia Theater and into Pacific Hall we takes refooge in their ignorance in pade . went ships Guring this visit to San e | 3500 ; " sp Francisco, the ity in which she r,\my-‘a”::«; ?‘va‘?s;wf ;i'n"'fl‘;g;",}élf-“? d- Speakin’ gen thar's mebby two made her American debut. Per- T, 00 118 FO0T A O O e . | th hundred mules in vne of these yere xu‘;- haps the story of that debut. With 1S et hored looking stage manager you ment pack trains. An' In the lead, fol- attendant struggles, has never been told ever saw, for an augience, the great Pol- lowed, waited on and worshiped by them in a more eresting way than as re- ish actress recited the last act of ‘Adri- mules, is a aged gray mare. She don't counted by Miss Josephine Tucholsky, a enne Lecouvr as 1 have never heard pack nothin’ her virchoo an’ a little whe. .8 Sestructréss. in 1L before nor since I read sl the other beil, which last is hung 'round her neck ame Modjeska. did a great P A emne e uiin a lot. Of course, this yere old mare with e American stage. She is o story was pictured bef nothin’ but her feelin’ an’' that bell to the bonds of lovalty and yg _ Modjeska's marvelous fac encumber her goes fa'rly speakin’ flyin’ admiration: which the lovely characteris- and vojce e change In Hill's face fron ight. But go as fast an’' as far as she tics of the tress seem to entwine an expression of weariness t Lxld of the pieases, them long-y'eared locoed wor- around the k s of all those who know mCSt rapt enjovimen wonder was iu shipers of hers won't never let her out- s ol AEne’ St i) befode cn their raptured sight. Which the last Modjeska as of a close qou1; finished her sufferings we were all one of 'em, panniers, freight an’ all, would 2 never tires in - i, tears. When Hill recovered he warm 8o chargin’ to the topmost pinnacle of the ed her when her corgratulated Modjeska and exclaimed Rockies 1f she leads the way r p with the actress began. madame. vou can play at th No, this yere g mare don't like . he first time | met h‘rv t any time and for as long <z mules none; she abhors ‘em an’ kicks an’ k. she said, “‘an has lasted ever J % abused ‘em W ver they draws near. e e RS ates ABe CAlGNE Bown ie next day. we went down But Ldem 0ol muies don't care; It'S ec- nanciz en with €0 many clever PO~ .ter’ She had her English well unde an Imu.e's cup it Joy is,runain e}'e: e and a stic principles in it, Mo with little’ - foreign accent WO uuds numse’ I permicied to crop gras and her husband e up here i it an added charm, and ns WAan lony fost U tils yers ola. gray, g of a year alter their arrivai he balcony sceme. which she We traves ail aay, tollowin’ my teawm Amer They stopped on O Farrell ited.;she_was a1 m of: lovel - glimpsin’ Luat flea-bitten use at el where hen Ness charm. Then folloyved the trag - 3 Sy e 54 - " Py - . few doc s athere Litheh : Sl v, Adrichne, 1f possible render Liendnsan _HAL Lawn (i Su S My people were from Pomerania it o o e re. Before the OF taig Of nutmin’ eise. it arouses their t almost a Pole. Morcover. I bad gay closed she had been engaged for. n religius . ewcivusiasm to highest piten; 1o meet the gracious wo- two weeks' engagement at the California o Aty Raiadaity & loote Tax trethit fien wew, apf ¥ wan db-iTmeater . D uilis b i ; mgNl; an’ paruc iar L pegs out Jerry el & o T berest Bk L =hal er forget that night in A ty ueep an’ strong. rest is hob- very eager to lcarn the EUst, INTT, when tiis lum\‘(ml woman, wi ca all except Tom. Gray mare or not, ge, and 1 heard she wanted 12 ‘”f.:, :‘ oy ‘\:'1 ‘m“ + gamble the -outfit, Tom wouldn't pe for some hours o™ sjorican stage. .The piay - 1ban.ou werry, let the indoocement be with her. As e A ecobyvnen o o D8 €VET Su alioolin ety “\ irfer Lacousreur,’ and; Euipontin wnen a well organized mule team '» : Modjesk er 2 m . :‘ ¥ \"“4 that a-way ailers carries along a bronco. nd 1 made i5e and Haley lamards &3 Mycholy Lnis yere steeq, saddied an’ bridied, trots - become her teacher in Il se wa for as busines through the cay alongside of the off - manager | Knew that $i65 was all we w his bricie ret ht over th T struggle. which often 100K in. But to an artistic sense tl v iBgme g L K L A n began a strusgl dmvs with her. P1ay’s the thing’ afier all and on: tha Tt v Lhe dheuln 5 secne ther Mg asted for nights as well as days with h night it was a triumph. I think ther or. ae "to come into camp when For three months and a half we studied was never anything like it seen in a San ca. Sec - a 2 3 1 E: o ’, r é r 5, callea. h bein’ the idee, this yere ca- and then she had a chance to use her Eng- Francisco theater beforé nor since. Peo- n S AliLrS Kept Strl in camp. sh. When I saw that it was hard for ber ple stood up, thev cheered, tney cried James’ is my bronco’s name; an’ the : onversational Englis o- they wanted to stampede upon the stag “Jame _bronco’s name; ar S Sin ational English I pro- 1ey tanted t (reermaliers 1 woman who evenin’ followin” the sight of that Tram- posed that she should only learn the Eng- {714 T1ate the bande of this woman wh peras gray mare, | maxes onusual shors ish of the various parts Ix;_xras'altxlous of her genius. On that night 1 wa i et S N e y gl at language. So we began hanpy. too, though | was prompter, man temptations to him; but he might have dy of Cleopatra, a part that o and everything else that | could be other pians an' get strayed a lot prose- Poland or anywhere Modjeska was hampered in expressin coatin’ of 'em to a finish. So I ties James course, French and her thanks even at this time, for all th to- the trail-wagon, an’ followin’ bacon, e English she knew was the literal word- 3 R 5. o s ce i g d i acks, can to S e Bt 65 i?_‘":;n(’;;‘shiz_;dv;g‘f ing of these few part : Saie Dell thy framel fasd e o the b i realad e e word in . After the play we had a little supper trail, I rolls in onder the lead wagon an’ ng & sound something like a at “the Palace Hotel for oniy a 1ew sives myse'f up to sleep. ther of these languages. Then =he friends, and among them was a youny “Exactly as [ surmises, when I turns would make the queerest kind of a hier~ man who has since had & large measut B 2 - : 8! at sun up, thar's ne a mule in oglyphic on the page over this word to Oof fame—Henry Sienkiewicz, the novei- very one of them besotted idola- help her remember it “She had a wonder- ist. By the w he has promised o ters goes poundin’ back as well as ever ful memoyy and at t end of three and Write a new play for Moajeska. He was e f o he can witn his hobbles on, to confess his 2 half months she had memorized in Eng- 2 Member of the colony of Polish peopic & Bember . sins an’ say his pray’rs to that old gray e o Clespaten Adrienne Le. 9own south and then came up here, from mare. Even Jerry., whose cynicism should ouvreur, Juliet and Op¥elia Papers. "Ho was Guite s YOS A thon have saved him, pulls his picket pin an “She was a beautiful creature, With 2 but returned to Poland goon af: e gl Bl - grace that I have never seen equaled. I Madame Modjeska went Mast, He mar ne is on- their trails. was a young woman then and I loved the red a vy r){:h girl in Poland, and i “Which I finds that team strung all AESiahas Sivwmyn e o e ool along between my camp an’ Tramperas. ‘All this time she was waiting for a . TIWe 04 Gl Rest iterate wor hie Peter, the little lead mule, bein’ plumb ac Another wuo.was espe- agile an’ sharp on hobbles, gets cl'ar thar hance to appear here on the stage in an cially invited to the little supper o ¢ AT s T Seear i cres 2 English part. She was alone a good deal of brate the success of Modjeska’s first g‘r‘a miw{: b s ‘h;_\t:xre:u; hat goddess the time, her husband, the Count Bozenta, American appearance was a {’gonel Hin- Rgs T Dasdy tiews. . giheiin I being & great deal in the south on ac- ton. then editor of the Posf the only turns them an’ lifts about a squar’ incih count of his health. Bo I did a good deal 7ewsPaper man who had given Modjeska of hide off each with the blacksnake whip of the looking around and the business ne- poY 2EIenUion of notices beforeshe got L cerryiy’ by way of pintin ook theix tietions for v o e . p : errers an’ breedin’ in ‘em a cagarness to gotietions for her. No one could speak “Tie next morning at rehearsal, when et back to the wi Which r g ¥ Goria when /L 2 get ba the wagons which is .their English faster than I could when I got john MecCullough went to again congrat destiny, They takes it humble an' dooti- ready. That was in the days when John ulate’ Modjeska, he suddenly burst into ful, an’ relinquishes all idees of reachin McCullough was a theatrical manager. iears. Recovering himseif, he exclaimed that gray mare shrine But then Modjeska was what miight be ) :xmz you m;_ tribute of my tears. When I overtakes old Jerry, I pours alled totally unknown in the. theatrical .\!n”m t was only ..’;\.: of many tributes the leather into him speshul, an’ the wa Sotalts of th am. rt he newspapers him an’ his pard Tom go scatterin’ f world here ¢ came as vociferous in her praise as they amp refreshes me a heap. An’ yet whe Though been for ten vears had before been silent, and the theate I rescoos Peter from the demoralizin’ in- eading lad Imperial Theater was packed nightly. MeCullough was flooerttes of that gray mare, an’ begins to Varsaw, eclecting her own plays and ap- Elven a benefit and piaved Hamiet, Mod- pick up the other members of the team R ot s coone id not JeSKa iy 3 most wonderful interpretu- on the journey back, I'm some depressed. pesring almost w - . hr”nd” m°t tion ot Ophelia in Polish. She bad pla I don't see Tom or Jerry. .Naither is serve her as introduction here—or at thig purt many times in her own cou them mules by the wagons when L ar east nmot as an introduction of use. The try, and had even spent several month managers here seemed to regard her as madhouse 1o study the variou pure. onadulterated _cussedne: me tited woman who had taken to the Phases of the inmates. 2 B a-wayl Jerry. with mo hobbies g gk ool bunody i oon after the termination of the en E ely draggin’ a rope. can lope about a = f pire thest wil The e ot ! gagement at the California Modjesh | free an’ permiscus. 'om, with i g ok 4 ame of 2 made a tour of the State with ‘Camill & 1o hamper him but his love for tussle cess, and she was a fake and ‘Delilah’ added to her repertoirs. |4 is cven more lightsome an’ loos and the ma rs were wary. 8o, though She had also succeeded in mastering I | 34 Jerry mule, hatin’ me an’ allowi: Barion Hill and McCullough saw Mod- Lnglish by this time part of the trageds | to make me all the grief he can, simply ka often, they never took much stock ©f ]Manof Stuart, w’!\wh she afterward _.f"A\-w the trail Tomv~rs n(lm; 1 '.'J;\"‘ ot They were more than polite. of. Made £0 famous in America, and a.pari him an’ touches him up that time. An g hegodbnge g T,:;p‘”' » L~ of the lines of Beatrice in *Much Ado Tom an’ Jerry is shorely lost a whole 5 - st D it came Apout Nothing.' Success was the rule natter of an appearance or an en- from that on. and after the return from here F'm at that zagement she could never pin them down the tour Sargent, the Eastern theatfl. the reglon for tham Bing, Charles Coghlan was play.. cal manager. who was hers focn. Meoc] s Jamien to.8 shaw : Siact g o @ contract with her and she soon fol- 1 » 2 £ ne, and playing t Lowed" him 10 bamly: & Seriers ot on_fol he saddle since he's foaled. I don’t p enches, 100, for no one appreci- . a series of appear- rows thars so mtch hard 5 e ances ia the .East he know har's €0 much La was. Madame Mod- ~“Since then I have always kept in touch fie warld s he does Aran O perhaps because, as with Modjeska, and very pleasant have e goes ransackin’ ab qu v remarked, he remjnded her been the mestings I have had with e o 1 is hard an’ when she has been here. I expect to no > WG after 1 had been die- PSR Some time with her this cummer at 3 Ay g o i '».,,1,-151.‘ 2 s Arder er beautiful home c . B ol by : plays and appearance: frach; Do beautiful he e <t]’:'cx’i:‘;a|-'l‘;n E r ‘em to hide. At last I'quits an’ throws ent 1o bed ‘to sleep, } o dn ot A 3 and in the diskyard. Tom an’ Jerr went o bed ‘to sleep, ble woman in other respects outside of |3 B onirted. aw Tms out twe Mles and 1 4id dream her dramatic genius. She Is both o fio: | I hooks up the others an’ seein’ it's down her first appearance, lnguist and a poet. She is regarded in |3 T , ‘easy trail I makes Tascosa > 8 § Wil an' a easy trail I makes Tascosa an <o the Hamiet of Charles Foland as'an authority on her own lan- b its. 2 : < : oq EUaBe, so perfectly does she speak f s e S T 4 3 an idea in my head R e Spea L No, [ never crosses up on Tom an ; Sec Barton Hill ool Ehe can translate parts of Shakespear: £ Jerrs {n this yere life no more. Wha g & A oe, Caian S nd- ish and still keep the meter. ¢ ey i Chls Fare e e - 0wt ation » ‘She Wil be on the sage a3 long as he 14 my next trip back. I'm camped about'a ; 3 sure, for life to her to be Bave Dalf day's drive of that same locoed plaza H d he 14 not get Coghlan to NaPPY must be busy. If she were not on ¥ ,J? f}‘r’:—‘n"fl“‘ As I'm settin' iIn (Famr‘ Cullough. who was LD¢ stage she would be occupled with | with the sun still plenty high—I'm com- v g near that some time h mething else, for she has too much cre- | pilin’ flapjacks at the time—I sees eight Mamlet and give Modjeska & droms vers woll acg Gy N, Paints and i Ot ten ravens wheelin’ an’ circlin’ over a give Modjeska a draws very well, and she always Dajnte Swell about three miles to the left well a e play Ophella. His words were the designs for all her costurhos, |1 ro. *“'Tom an’ Jerry for a bloo stack! I says hetic the light of subsequen: mMember an incident of her illness a few to myse'f; an' with that I einches the ents. except that God and the genius :i?r;a?\fi’» .nfl_"thov‘wd the ambition of saddle onto James plenty precip-tate. er since. Barton Hill could not realize jugujar, her left arm was uscions S0 L1e tragedy. Hal Way oown 3 Ivk siope. - 21 as useless to her Where thar ain't grass enough to cover the hat Modjeska was fast learning Euglish, for three months and had to be kept brown nakedness of the ground, les the d he always spoke French to her. pointing upward. With her right hand bones of Tom and Jerrv. This yere lat- But when she knew ‘Adrienne Lecou- Sh€ Wrote @ falry story in Polish for her : rt in English, and also the from ‘Romeo and Jullet, I little grandson and illustrated 1t the most_exquisite drawings in black L) and She was es- enna and “tudy gt the beginning of his career. Both JeanA2nd Edouard de Reszke make a better sleeve than any one else, it, as they do the loveliness and strength feels a mighty sight worse than his com- ter, who's that obstinate an’ resentful, he won't played his go back to camp none, me. ev. when T en if T ¢ . Fabrics under her hands fall into artistic of character that belong so thoroughly n et ool wall an't Warns Rim on that gray mare day, allows T Hill again and asked him if © ic,, e storY; 100, if 1 remember, had first appeared at a concert under Mod. draperies. I remember once in her dress. to Madame Modjeska.” €27 pacnero. At the stxth wallog Tem can't J3IS10e of (o one sie & Whals' Ias o 2e WON ot miake an appointment to Sodis v e ihe T e, i}:l It was sup- jeska's auspices. Madame Calve and Jean ing room seeing her take yards and yards AT aR S rased % worrit me up some. While he's man- car Modjeska read in Bnglish. He tried Losont good mmdon of their qualities, de Reszke are the godparents of her little of some soft rose pink gauszy stuff and comes an’ stands over Jerry. an’ pufs it ooverin’ about he gets that . hal 10 get out of it with excuses. but I finally nif oy !r[»(]’(? s ad qualities had sig- grandson Charles Modjeska in Chicago. just pin it around and about the white up he'll take the rest himse'f. This yere rope he's draggin’ tangled good an’ inade an appointment for the theater at ‘ot apink o sres This little fellow, six vears old, is quite satin she ‘was wearing as Jultet. 1t | QfT1 aAnN erry cvidence of brotherly love is too much, in a bush. It shorely holds him k the next morning. Medjeeh. 1 thin T m-] at ‘rlhuul» to the lasting a musician, and’ recently played two seemed to fall as if in a picture, and as 2 an’' for Tom's sake I desists an’ throws bush is_old Jerry's last picket—his last 1 were there promptly at the nour SooiU5,and lovely }’:;g';;l:dlli\no{‘ehm‘dmsya pumbers at a plano recltal in'Chicago, she came out on the stage caching & Jerry loose. That old felon—whils T sees CAMmD, TWhich he'd o mighty sight better ed, but were chagrined to find the Lhod oeporion tendered i T in Po- his name heading the programme. long floating end that seemed like a rosy Wheelers. hand out with penters at work in the theater and king so much noise as to give Hill a pecially and wonderingly gratified, too, at the progress art had made in her native ‘“Modjeska never studies from a printed or a typewritten manuscript, but always cloud over her head, one of the stage hands standing by sald to me quickly, he's onforgivin’ an’ is a-harborin’ of ha- treds ag'in me—don't forget the trace- does ring in a trace-chain on him at need- ed intervals. Jerry jest nacherally starves - s ~ 4 ETe 3 i writes out her own parts for herself and ‘What picture does she remind vou of? n, an' comports himse'f like a law- !0 death for grass an’ water. An' wh; s2lia cxcuse for mot Eivink'us is time country since her days In Warsaw. There fo suit herself, She is artistic to her and I renlfed just as quickly, ‘Aurora. Cofitinued from Page Nine. ::1.;111' mule fof months. Which he eyen Dard to belleve that a-way, the faihiul ppointment off, but I saw the di<ape :!‘:ha :;‘l‘_r]nm"‘; Iian"‘\“'n’fi’é' mplheal‘r:‘the a.ré very soul‘dung particylar about her cos- I have many more memories, and they are 2 quits bitin’ an’ kickin' Tom s Sein, e’ mvln '_f;;\m. troo to the last. starves with 4 8 P C sic: Ve a 04 2 - " . ar’ vat v tment in the madame's face. and 8o deal to thank Modjeske for She w“sxnfi :gl:x:l!”‘n:n she is particularly so about all pleasant ones, of this woman whose m. water within two miles, but I played a trump card. ‘What's the mat- ter with Pacific Hall next door? Let's go of the principals In a benefit given to raise money for Paderewski to go to Vi- They must be of just such a cut and fashion, and she very often makes them herself. She thinks she can magnetic personality is one of her most compelling charms,” a charm so strong that every one on the stage with her feels some furrow. As the chain descends, pore Tom jumps an’ gives a groan. Tom that lovin' beast seems lfke he's goin’ to Treak -his faithful heart over it, 'cause lie regyards it as a sign that Jerry's get- Tom declin: with Jerry. picks their it. He stays an an’ the ravens an' the bones.” starves coyotes